Here They Are: The New Superheroes of Digital Voice Recording!

The Philips Voice Tracer 600 series – now with double the memory and up to 44 days of constant recording

TORONTO & ATLANTA--()--Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the new Voice Tracer 600 series taking voice recording to the next level. The memory capacity of all new Voice Tracers has been doubled to up to 4GB, which allows for 44 days of constant voice recording.

Capture your notes and thoughts or record interviews and important conversations in outstanding audio quality and with unmatched ease-of-use. Useful features like optimized power management and charging, or stereo recording with the handy tie-clip microphone have additionally been added for some models.

On top of that, the Voice Tracer 625 now includes the brand new Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 speech recognition software for an even better speech-to-text experience.

Voice recording in unmatched quality – and with doubled memory

The new Philips Voice Tracer 655 is the best choice when it comes to high quality voice recording. Loud and disturbing background noises are filtered out by the low-noise microphone and with the included tie-clip microphone it is now possible to record in stereo. Capture sound or voices in the popular MP3 format or even in audio CD like quality – with 4GB of integrated memory the Voice Tracer 655 is a reliable partner for long conversations.

Voice recording with more power

The new Voice Tracer 655 includes a high-quality rechargeable battery which runs up to 22 hours. Additionally the device can be conveniently powered while recording through USB – from a car adapter, power adapter, Notebook or Netbook.

Voice recording – turn speech into text

For those who want to turn their speech into text, the Voice Tracer 625 is the perfect companion. Compared to its predecessor, it features a doubled 2GB internal memory and the brand new Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 speech recognition software allows you to create documents faster than most people type. Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 is now more accurate than ever, delivering up to 99% speech-to-text accuracy, and with the initial training time reduced from 15 to only four minutes, creating your documents has never been quicker.

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About Philips Speech Processing

For more than 50 years Philips Speech Processing has been the driving force in delivering dictation and speech technologies to users around the world. With its headquarters and production center located in Vienna, Austria, Philips Speech Processing is the world’s market leader in professional digital and analogue dictation solutions. From office-based desktop dictation to mobile dictation, from conference recording to entire workflow solutions with the SpeechExec Pro software family, our products support every imaginable scenario. Revolutionary digital dictation products, such as the SpeechMike, the Digital Pocket Memo with Voice Commands, the Barcode Module and the LAN Docking Station are helping professionals to work more efficiently every day, in the easiest possible manner, entirely in keeping with Philips ‘sense and simplicity’ philosophy. For more information, visit: www.philips.com/dictation or www.philips.com.

About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs more than 119,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 25.4 billion in 2010, the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal well-being and pleasure with strong leadership positions in flat TV, male shaving and grooming, portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.

Contacts

Philips Speech Processing
Adam Polakow, +1-905-201-5488
adam.polakow@philips.com
www.philips.com

Contacts

Philips Speech Processing
Adam Polakow, +1-905-201-5488
adam.polakow@philips.com
www.philips.com